Old Lyme — With an agreement again in place for New London to accept wastewater from four beach communities here, local officials are continuing their constipated effort to build the sewer ...

The new super sewer system is just a couple of bolts away from being ready to carry millions of tonnes of Londoners’ waste. Thankfully, the London sewers and whatever is inside them are usually ...

London has a combined sewer system, which means sewage and rain flow into the same pipes. Storms frequently overwhelmed the system, spilling around 40 million tons of sewage into the Thames annually.

Spring rains that once might have spilled sewage into the River Thames are instead filling up London’s new “super sewer” – a massive network of tunnels designed to bring the city’s plumbing into the ...

Now said to have cost £5 billion, the Thames Tideway Tunnel, known as London’s super sewer, is part of an effort to reduce pollution and clean the city’s river.

Built from 318 million bricks and 880,000 cubic yards of concrete, Balzalgette’s Victorian sewer system is still very much in use today albeit with numerous 20th and 21st century upgrades and ...

Charles visited the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 10-year project designed to protect the Thames from sewage pollution.

Tideway said the super sewer will reduce sewage pollution into the river by 95%.Thames Water will then operate the system as part of its London wastewater network.

A “humongous horror” of rain will come, the King jokingly reassured workers during a visit to London’s new super sewer. Charles visited the Thames Tideway Tunnel on Wednesday to mark the ...